Details emerged at Antrim Magistrates' Court, sitting in Ballymena, where Terence Adam Donegan (31), with an address listed as Nursery Close in Ballymena, was convicted of offering to supply methadone in September last year. The court was told there had been a "sudden death" of a man at Devenagh Court in Ballymena and a "prescription methadone bottle in the name of Terence Adam Donegan was located on a bedside table close to the deceased". Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to NorthernIrelandWorld, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.
The court was told a blood sample from the deceased contained drugs including methadone. A prosecutor said the deceased "was not prescribed methadone" but Donegan did have such a script at the time. The prosecutor said a post mortem showed the "cause of death" was "intoxication" from substances which included methadone.
When arrested, the defendant denied supplying methadone to the deceased and said the bottle was in the room as he and the deceased were "friends" and he had been in the property "several days before". Advertisement Advertisement Donegan had claimed to police he had taken his methadone prescription in the deceased's property and had "left the bottle behind". The prosecutor said a mobile phone belonging to the deceased "revealed messages" in a "Facebook account" which was attributed to the defendant "and he was offering to sell methadone to the deceased".
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